Secret of Happiness

Happiness depends to some extent upon external conditions but chiefly upon mental attitudes.

Conditions are neither good nor bad; they are always neutral, seeming to be either depressing or encouraging because of the sad or bright attitude of the mind of the individual concerned with them.

If you think you have some big problem, look at people who have a greater problem. Suddenly, you will get a confidence that your problem is much smaller, and you can manage it.

Look at your own life. In the past, you had many problems. They have all come and gone. Know that even this will go and you do have the energy and power to overcome it. 

You are always looking for solutions from someone. You forget that if you turn our mind inward, you can get some idea, some solution.

Change your thoughts if you wish to change your circumstances. Since you alone are responsible for your thoughts, only you can change them. Therefore, start now to think only those thoughts that will bring you health and happiness.

Successful people do not blame others for troubles that can usually be traced to their own actions and lack of understanding. They know that no one has any power to add to their happiness or detract from it unless they themselves are so weak that they allow the adverse thoughts and wicked actions of others to affect them.

The more you improve yourself, the more you will elevate others around you. The self-improving man is the increasingly happy man.

Avoid a negative approach to life. One may find some fault in even the greatest masterpieces of art, music, and literature. But isn’t it better to enjoy their charm and glory.

The ever new joy of God inherent in the soul is indestructible. You are an image of God; you should behave like a god. Resurrect yourself from the littleness of life, the little things that disturb you.

You have all creative ability, and you should work hard until your dreams are materialized.

You should keep busy doing constructive things for your own self-improvement and for the benefit of others. 

Happiness lies in making others happy. Some people think only of their own family but these are the very persons who do not become happy. To live for self is the source of all misery.

When you came into this world, you cried and everyone else smiled. You should so live your life that when you leave, everyone else will cry but you will be smiling.

The deeper you meditate and the more willingly you serve, the happier you will be.

Learn to carry all the conditions of happiness within yourself by meditating and attuning your realization to which is God. Your happiness should never be subject to any outside influence. Whatever your environment is, do not allow your inner peace to be touched by it.

You can keep that divine inner peace intact despite all painful thrusts of outer circumstance.

Be silent and calm every night and again in the morning before starting the day’s activity. 

The more you depend upon conditions outside yourself for happiness, the less happiness you will experience.

Night and day I am in a state of joy. That joy is God. To know Him is to perform the funeral rites for all your sorrows. He does not require you to be stoic and morose.

Without being happy you will not even be able to find Him. The happier you are, the greater will be your attachment with Him. Those who know Him are always happy, because God is joy itself.

I form new habits of thinking by seeing the good everywhere, and by beholding all things as the perfect idea of God made manifest.

I will make up my mind to be happy within myself right now, where I am today.